Found my short, Check your headlights!
07-09-2008, 11:07 AM
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Found my short, Check your headlights!
As some of you might now, I've been having trouble blowing my fusible link on my car.
Right next to the battery, remember reading about mysterious C4 fires.
A while back my driver's side headlight stopped working.
I bought headlight motors, and a controller, as well as the window regulator off a forum member who was turning his car into a track car.
When I went to change them out I found this little surprize!
This is right where the wire feeds though the headlight bucket framework.
Seems it managed to chafe through.
Seems if you have a short in the system, the controller keeps feeding it POWER and will fry the fusible link trying to get the motor to spin!
So, if you lights stopped working, or your car stopped charging, be sure to check it out.
Right next to the battery, remember reading about mysterious C4 fires.
A while back my driver's side headlight stopped working.
I bought headlight motors, and a controller, as well as the window regulator off a forum member who was turning his car into a track car.
When I went to change them out I found this little surprize!
This is right where the wire feeds though the headlight bucket framework.
Seems it managed to chafe through.
Seems if you have a short in the system, the controller keeps feeding it POWER and will fry the fusible link trying to get the motor to spin!
So, if you lights stopped working, or your car stopped charging, be sure to check it out.
07-09-2008, 11:38 AM
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St. Jude Donor '05
glad you checked your shorts 
07-09-2008, 03:03 PM
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St. Jude Donor '06
Same thing happened to my passenger side, when mine shorted it took out the controller. Mine got caught between the headlight cover and the hood, there is supposed to be a clip that holds the harness against the frame and mine was broken.
11-27-2011, 07:13 PM
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Wiring Clip
I'm assuming that you replaced the clip. Mine is missing also, where did you find one? Thanks.
